i have limited info that may relate to your enquiry,my ggg grandparents were james ling and susan (nee booth) dated late 1700.they had eight children,mark,david bathsheba,abraham,william,susan,JOHN and MARY ANN,who probably is your relation.her brother JOHN was my gg grandfather,who was baptised 28/09/1823 and married elizabeth hammond 13/08/1843.that is as far as i can inform your enquiry.
out of interest JOHN/ELIZABETH LING had 6 children including my
g grandfather WILLIAM LING who married sarah elizabeth smith
14/05/1854.they had 10 children including my grandmother SARAH
ELIZABETH LING who married my grandfather alfred day.that was the end of our LING chain. my father stanley day and family moved to blaxhall in the 1950s.i attended blaxhall school and made many friends.mavellous and unforgettable memories
Hi John
Lovely to hear from you. You can find me on Genes Reunited probably through searching on Hannah and Isaac Thurston and I will be only to happy to allow you access to my tree. You have probably already read that I am working on fleshing out my tree offline and will be uploading a new ged.file soon to the GR website.
Kind regards
Angie
I really appreciate you telling me this information......which site or records do you use? I only ask so I can fill out my own Thurston branch and find out more about them.
I know a lot about Sophia once she marries in 1850 and onwards and if you collect info on all your branches I will happily tell all I know and scan any certificates I have.
If you would like to contact me directly you can get me at
Julie,
Sophia Thurston is my 1st cousin 4 times removed, with James being my 3rd great grand uncle. The Thurston family were based at Snape at least from the early 1700's and then came to Blaxhall. Several Thurstons then moved to Rotherhithe/Bermondsey in London, in particular Abraham Thurston who is my 3rd great grandfather.
Best Wishes
John
I am related to the Thurston's from Blaxhall, my direct line is Sophia Thurston daughter of James Thurston. Unfortunately I know very little about my Thurston line other than what I have been told on this site....I don't know if we are related or how if we are but it would be nice to find out.
Angie,
Have been reading your correspondence with Julie and just thought I would mention that Isaac Thurston is my 4th great grandfather ( Hannah Mills my 4th great grandmother). The previous generations were Isaac Thurston and Mary Symonds (married 13th Nov 1750) and James Thurston and Ann Mobbs (married 23rd april 1728).
I would be very interested in any tree information you have while I can provide my tree info in return if you wish.
Julie,
Have been reading your correspondence with Angie and just thought I would mention that Isaac Thurston is my 4th great grandfather ( Hannah Mills my 4th great grandmother). The previous generations were Isaac Thurston and Mary Symonds (married 13th Nov 1750) and James Thurston and Ann Mobbs (married 23rd april 1728).
I would be very interested in any tree information you have while I can provide my tree info in return if you wish.
Hi Susan, I have a fair bit of Jay family history my Grandfather was Thomas William Jay a brother of Phillip Jay. If you have a geneaology program I can send you a gedcom file with what I have or send you a printed version. you can e-mail me at gounie1@tiscali.co.uk, looking forward to hearing from you. Barry Jay.
Hi Angie thanks for that I will let you know if there's anything although I go there quite a lot as I have an Uncle and another Aunt and Uncle and various family all around there I live on the Wirral. How strane that relatives of two different branches have come to live so far from Sussex!
Jon if there is anything research or anything I am capable of that I can do please let me know - although for your purposes of Blaxhall tree I accept it's probably unlikely.....what a fabulous job you do though and what an exceptional site.
Angie by the way I have tried to make contact with who I think is you on GU.
Your oar is welcome anytime if it hadn't been for you I wouldn't know what I do now! Do you need my Sophia's details? I wasn't sure if her and her branch were relevant as she left Blaxhall but I am happy to tell you what I know if it's useful to your big tree.
May I ask if my sophia (daughter of James and Lydia) was christened in Blaxhall and is there a date of birth for her? I only have a circa year and going by the census returns thats changeable.
Angie I will get my stuff out later and check her place of death but her daughter Mary was Aberegle and that area is where her son lived and Rhuddlan etc ......where I still have relatives!
Evening all,
Looks like you're having a good chin wag so I won't stick my oar in, other than to say thanks to Angie for the info and give her Sophie's christening, which was 10/8/1798 in Blaxhall. Just post back if there's anything specific I might be able to help with.
Hi Julie
I also have an ancestry account but have taken down my family tree from the site and I have stopped my subscription. However, you should be able to find me on GU through our family connection to Hannah and Issac though. I still have quite a bit to add to the tree...it's finding the time! But I will be more than happy to share what I have found out about our Thurston family with you. Where did your Sophia live in North Wales? I have lived in North Wales for nearly twenty years now.
Angie
Hi Angie I have got an account with genes but I haven't used it for a while as I tend to use my Ancestry one ..... however now I know you are on there I shall go on and update it so we can connect, I will renew my membership over the next couple of days.
Am I allowed to give you my e-mail address on here - I'm not sure if we are allowed to put our details up?
I probably don't have as much on the Thurston's as you because I only recently found out it was Thurston as it had been mis-spelt on her marriage certificate. My Sophia is the daughter of James (so the niece of your Sophia) our grandparents that we share would appear to be Isaac and Hannah.
My Sophia ended up in Cheshire and North Wales.
I'm very happy to find a new cousin.............Julie
Hello Julie
This website is great. I am really looking forward to looking at the Blaxhall family tree when the compilers have completed the huge task of piecing it all together.
Have you got an account with Genes Reunited? I am in the process of fleshing out my family tree on their website.
Regards
Cousin Angie
Hi Angie,
I guess that makes us cousins as I am directly descended from Sophia's brother James. Or more to the point the namesake of his sister...............James daughter Sophia.
This site is wonderful and I have found out more in just a few visit' s to this site than I have in 5 years of searching.
May I add your relatives to my tree? I know they are my relatives too but I would not have known that information unless you had mentioned it here.
Kind Regards
Julie
I have been trying for over a year now without success to contact you via Pat. The last message I had from her was that she was moving and having some difficulties because of that.
I do not handle DNA samples. They are dealt with by the Australian Department of Defense. I do have some limited communication with the DOD and forward the names and addresses of people I have managed to trace and contact. (14 of the 23 British born soldiers considered likely to be interred at Pheasant Wood and remaining to be identified) These are people with a likely DNA match to a specific soldier and who are prepared to assist the DOD in their endeavours to identify these men, so that the relevant samples can be submitted.
I do not wish to identify the individual I have traced but a brief discussion / email communication would clarify the position quickly.
my email is howard.eastcott atte btinternet.com tel 01444 881247.
I am on the case because as I understood it the potenially match of Ben that Blaxhall Archive Group had discovered, had recieved the sample test kit and was sending his DNA sample to you. I have just heard from Pat Bridges that htis was not teh case and therefore I shall try and find out what has happened to the DNA sample. The Richardardson family that went to the cemetery unfortunately will not be a match for "Our Ben".
Hello
I am thrilled that the Blaxhall community has set up this fantastic website and the idea about piecing together a family tree of Blaxhall is a wonderful idea. I wish you all the very best in what must be a very long but rewarding project.
The reason I am contacting you is that I am directly descended from Sophia Thurston, daughter of Isaac and Hannah mentioned above.
I can tell you that Sophia left Blaxhall and settled in South London. She married a widower Jeremiah Reeves who like Sophia, had left his childhood home in Oxfordshire, I can only assume in search of work in London. They married in St Mary Magdalen Parish Church in Bermondsey in 1824 and went on to have more than 5 children together although some died very young; Sophia raised a young daughter from Jeremiah’s first marriage too.
Abraham also appears to have left Blaxhall and settled in London around the same time as Sophia. He married Ann Langthon in 1828 in the same parish church as Sophia. They went on to have at least 7 children all born and baptised in Rotherhithe.
Their sister Sarah was visiting Sophia on census night in 1851. She is recorded as a single woman aged 59 and deaf.
Can you confirm Sophia’s baptism date please? I only have a circa date on my tree.
Regards
Angie
I have been trying to make contact with you regarding Ben Richardson and the DNA quest.
See my posting - I am sure that a match can be found but feel the approach would best be made by a local relative and have been told by another member on the rootschat website that you were involved in the original hunt and perhaps have the contacts I am seeking.
I hope you can help.
Kind regards,
Howard Eastcott (Dr) descendant of Elijah Cook from Campsea Ash and Abraham Cooper (miller) from Pettistree
I am extremely grateful for this information, having read about the Lings on this site I suppose (as there were so many of them) it is not suprising we are related to them somehow!
What you have sent me so far is fascinating, my mother and I wondered if it was something to do with parish relief. I shall look and see if there is a site where I can read the Ipswich Journal.
I am off to make family sheets out for them - very exciting......
Thanks again I look forward to hearing from you when you have time, I really appreciate it as you must be very busy.
Sorry for the delay, been a tad busy. Removal Orders were issued by parishes to individuals (and their families) who were requiring parish relief (due to being ill, disabled, unmarried mothers, etc) but were not originally from said parish. Unless they had received an official 'settement' certificate for their new parish they could at any time be removed to their parish of birth or last settlement.
On the relative front, the parents of James Thurston (1785) were Isaac Thurston & Hannah Mills; they married on 8/11/1780 in Blaxhall. Isaac was buried in Blaxhall in 1831, Hannah in 1849. Isaac's parents were Isaac Thurston & Mary Symonds; Isaac was born c1729 and buried 14/12/1803, Blaxhall. He married Mary on 13/11/1750 in Snape. James had 10 siblings that I'm aware of; John 1781, Jemima 1783, Isaac 1786, John(2) 1789, Sarah 1791, Elizabeth 1792, Martha 1792, Mary 1795, Sophia 1798 and Abraham 1801. So far I have marriages/children for 4 of them. Mary married Samuel Ling 1814 and was the subject of a feature in the Ipswich Journal in 1837 when the family were described as living 'in a small clay hovel on the waste'. They subsequently moved to Lancashire in search of work, but were back in Blaxhall by 1851. Will add some more later :-)
Hi Paul,
Seen your message on the Blaxhall website ;
Iam from Blaxhall my name is Joan McHugh maiden name Drewery i now live in Scotland i am in touch with your sister Carol.
Hope life is treating you well Joan x
Hi Ann,
Just noticed your name on the Blaxhall web sight,i to was born in 1944 in Blaxhall Joan Drewery is my maiden name ,i know live in scotland will send a longer email soon
Joan x
i have limited info that may relate to your enquiry,my ggg grandparents were james ling and susan (nee booth) dated late 1700.they had eight children,mark,david bathsheba,abraham,william,susan,JOHN and MARY ANN,who probably is your relation.her brother JOHN was my gg grandfather,who was baptised 28/09/1823 and married elizabeth hammond 13/08/1843.that is as far as i can inform your enquiry.
out of interest JOHN/ELIZABETH LING had 6 children including my
g grandfather WILLIAM LING who married sarah elizabeth smith
14/05/1854.they had 10 children including my grandmother SARAH
ELIZABETH LING who married my grandfather alfred day.that was the end of our LING chain. my father stanley day and family moved to blaxhall in the 1950s.i attended blaxhall school and made many friends.mavellous and unforgettable memories
malcolm day
Hi John
Lovely to hear from you. You can find me on Genes Reunited probably through searching on Hannah and Isaac Thurston and I will be only to happy to allow you access to my tree. You have probably already read that I am working on fleshing out my tree offline and will be uploading a new ged.file soon to the GR website.
Kind regards
Angie
Hi John
I really appreciate you telling me this information......which site or records do you use? I only ask so I can fill out my own Thurston branch and find out more about them.
I know a lot about Sophia once she marries in 1850 and onwards and if you collect info on all your branches I will happily tell all I know and scan any certificates I have.
If you would like to contact me directly you can get me at
jules.fitzgerald@ntlworld.com
until 4th Jan then it changes to sky but not sure of e mail address yet
Very Best Wishes
Julie
Julie,
Sophia Thurston is my 1st cousin 4 times removed, with James being my 3rd great grand uncle. The Thurston family were based at Snape at least from the early 1700's and then came to Blaxhall. Several Thurstons then moved to Rotherhithe/Bermondsey in London, in particular Abraham Thurston who is my 3rd great grandfather.
Best Wishes
John
Hi John
I am related to the Thurston's from Blaxhall, my direct line is Sophia Thurston daughter of James Thurston. Unfortunately I know very little about my Thurston line other than what I have been told on this site....I don't know if we are related or how if we are but it would be nice to find out.
Very Kind Regards
Julie
Angie,
Have been reading your correspondence with Julie and just thought I would mention that Isaac Thurston is my 4th great grandfather ( Hannah Mills my 4th great grandmother). The previous generations were Isaac Thurston and Mary Symonds (married 13th Nov 1750) and James Thurston and Ann Mobbs (married 23rd april 1728).
I would be very interested in any tree information you have while I can provide my tree info in return if you wish.
John
Julie,
Have been reading your correspondence with Angie and just thought I would mention that Isaac Thurston is my 4th great grandfather ( Hannah Mills my 4th great grandmother). The previous generations were Isaac Thurston and Mary Symonds (married 13th Nov 1750) and James Thurston and Ann Mobbs (married 23rd april 1728).
I would be very interested in any tree information you have while I can provide my tree info in return if you wish.
John
Hi Susan, I have a fair bit of Jay family history my Grandfather was Thomas William Jay a brother of Phillip Jay. If you have a geneaology program I can send you a gedcom file with what I have or send you a printed version. you can e-mail me at gounie1@tiscali.co.uk, looking forward to hearing from you. Barry Jay.
Hi Angie thanks for that I will let you know if there's anything although I go there quite a lot as I have an Uncle and another Aunt and Uncle and various family all around there I live on the Wirral. How strane that relatives of two different branches have come to live so far from Sussex!
Jon if there is anything research or anything I am capable of that I can do please let me know - although for your purposes of Blaxhall tree I accept it's probably unlikely.....what a fabulous job you do though and what an exceptional site.
Angie by the way I have tried to make contact with who I think is you on GU.
Julie :-)
Hello again
Jon - Thank you for telling me Sophia's baptism date, very much appreciated. Your oar is welcome anytime! How's the Blaxhall family tree coming along?
Julie - I know Rhuddlan and Abergele quite well. I live about 15 miles away from Rhuddlan. Let me know if you need any research doing over my way.
Angie :)
Your oar is welcome anytime if it hadn't been for you I wouldn't know what I do now! Do you need my Sophia's details? I wasn't sure if her and her branch were relevant as she left Blaxhall but I am happy to tell you what I know if it's useful to your big tree.
May I ask if my sophia (daughter of James and Lydia) was christened in Blaxhall and is there a date of birth for her? I only have a circa year and going by the census returns thats changeable.
Angie I will get my stuff out later and check her place of death but her daughter Mary was Aberegle and that area is where her son lived and Rhuddlan etc ......where I still have relatives!
;-)
Evening all,
Looks like you're having a good chin wag so I won't stick my oar in, other than to say thanks to Angie for the info and give her Sophie's christening, which was 10/8/1798 in Blaxhall. Just post back if there's anything specific I might be able to help with.
Cheers :-)
Hi Julie
I also have an ancestry account but have taken down my family tree from the site and I have stopped my subscription. However, you should be able to find me on GU through our family connection to Hannah and Issac though. I still have quite a bit to add to the tree...it's finding the time! But I will be more than happy to share what I have found out about our Thurston family with you. Where did your Sophia live in North Wales? I have lived in North Wales for nearly twenty years now.
Angie
Hi Angie I have got an account with genes but I haven't used it for a while as I tend to use my Ancestry one ..... however now I know you are on there I shall go on and update it so we can connect, I will renew my membership over the next couple of days.
Am I allowed to give you my e-mail address on here - I'm not sure if we are allowed to put our details up?
I probably don't have as much on the Thurston's as you because I only recently found out it was Thurston as it had been mis-spelt on her marriage certificate. My Sophia is the daughter of James (so the niece of your Sophia) our grandparents that we share would appear to be Isaac and Hannah.
My Sophia ended up in Cheshire and North Wales.
I'm very happy to find a new cousin.............Julie
Hello Julie
This website is great. I am really looking forward to looking at the Blaxhall family tree when the compilers have completed the huge task of piecing it all together.
Have you got an account with Genes Reunited? I am in the process of fleshing out my family tree on their website.
Regards
Cousin Angie
Hi Angie,
I guess that makes us cousins as I am directly descended from Sophia's brother James. Or more to the point the namesake of his sister...............James daughter Sophia.
This site is wonderful and I have found out more in just a few visit' s to this site than I have in 5 years of searching.
May I add your relatives to my tree? I know they are my relatives too but I would not have known that information unless you had mentioned it here.
Kind Regards
Julie
Thank you Maggie,
I have been trying for over a year now without success to contact you via Pat. The last message I had from her was that she was moving and having some difficulties because of that.
I do not handle DNA samples. They are dealt with by the Australian Department of Defense. I do have some limited communication with the DOD and forward the names and addresses of people I have managed to trace and contact. (14 of the 23 British born soldiers considered likely to be interred at Pheasant Wood and remaining to be identified) These are people with a likely DNA match to a specific soldier and who are prepared to assist the DOD in their endeavours to identify these men, so that the relevant samples can be submitted.
I do not wish to identify the individual I have traced but a brief discussion / email communication would clarify the position quickly.
my email is howard.eastcott atte btinternet.com tel 01444 881247.
Kind regards,
Howard
Dear Howard
I am on the case because as I understood it the potenially match of Ben that Blaxhall Archive Group had discovered, had recieved the sample test kit and was sending his DNA sample to you. I have just heard from Pat Bridges that htis was not teh case and therefore I shall try and find out what has happened to the DNA sample. The Richardardson family that went to the cemetery unfortunately will not be a match for "Our Ben".
I wondered why it had gone so quiet!
You can contact me directly through Pat Bridges
kind regards
Maggie Grenham Blaxhall Archive Group
Hello
I am thrilled that the Blaxhall community has set up this fantastic website and the idea about piecing together a family tree of Blaxhall is a wonderful idea. I wish you all the very best in what must be a very long but rewarding project.
The reason I am contacting you is that I am directly descended from Sophia Thurston, daughter of Isaac and Hannah mentioned above.
I can tell you that Sophia left Blaxhall and settled in South London. She married a widower Jeremiah Reeves who like Sophia, had left his childhood home in Oxfordshire, I can only assume in search of work in London. They married in St Mary Magdalen Parish Church in Bermondsey in 1824 and went on to have more than 5 children together although some died very young; Sophia raised a young daughter from Jeremiah’s first marriage too.
Abraham also appears to have left Blaxhall and settled in London around the same time as Sophia. He married Ann Langthon in 1828 in the same parish church as Sophia. They went on to have at least 7 children all born and baptised in Rotherhithe.
Their sister Sarah was visiting Sophia on census night in 1851. She is recorded as a single woman aged 59 and deaf.
Can you confirm Sophia’s baptism date please? I only have a circa date on my tree.
Regards
Angie
Maggie,
I have been trying to make contact with you regarding Ben Richardson and the DNA quest.
See my posting - I am sure that a match can be found but feel the approach would best be made by a local relative and have been told by another member on the rootschat website that you were involved in the original hunt and perhaps have the contacts I am seeking.
I hope you can help.
Kind regards,
Howard Eastcott (Dr) descendant of Elijah Cook from Campsea Ash and Abraham Cooper (miller) from Pettistree
Hi There,
I am extremely grateful for this information, having read about the Lings on this site I suppose (as there were so many of them) it is not suprising we are related to them somehow!
What you have sent me so far is fascinating, my mother and I wondered if it was something to do with parish relief. I shall look and see if there is a site where I can read the Ipswich Journal.
I am off to make family sheets out for them - very exciting......
Thanks again I look forward to hearing from you when you have time, I really appreciate it as you must be very busy.
Kind Regards
Julie
Hello,
Sorry for the delay, been a tad busy. Removal Orders were issued by parishes to individuals (and their families) who were requiring parish relief (due to being ill, disabled, unmarried mothers, etc) but were not originally from said parish. Unless they had received an official 'settement' certificate for their new parish they could at any time be removed to their parish of birth or last settlement.
On the relative front, the parents of James Thurston (1785) were Isaac Thurston & Hannah Mills; they married on 8/11/1780 in Blaxhall. Isaac was buried in Blaxhall in 1831, Hannah in 1849. Isaac's parents were Isaac Thurston & Mary Symonds; Isaac was born c1729 and buried 14/12/1803, Blaxhall. He married Mary on 13/11/1750 in Snape. James had 10 siblings that I'm aware of; John 1781, Jemima 1783, Isaac 1786, John(2) 1789, Sarah 1791, Elizabeth 1792, Martha 1792, Mary 1795, Sophia 1798 and Abraham 1801. So far I have marriages/children for 4 of them. Mary married Samuel Ling 1814 and was the subject of a feature in the Ipswich Journal in 1837 when the family were described as living 'in a small clay hovel on the waste'. They subsequently moved to Lancashire in search of work, but were back in Blaxhall by 1851. Will add some more later :-)
Hi Paul,
Seen your message on the Blaxhall website ;
Iam from Blaxhall my name is Joan McHugh maiden name Drewery i now live in Scotland i am in touch with your sister Carol.
Hope life is treating you well Joan x
Hi Sue@Barry
When you moved to Blaxhall where did you move from ?
Joan Mchugh Skipness Argyll
Hi Ann,
Just noticed your name on the Blaxhall web sight,i to was born in 1944 in Blaxhall Joan Drewery is my maiden name ,i know live in scotland will send a longer email soon
Joan x